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Quincy Troupe (center, at High-N-Dry Studio), a former poet laureate of California, is among the faculty of the Online School of Poetry. He says slam, rap, and hip-hop have kept the craft vibratn.

The scene is slamming

Performance poetry is no longer just an underground art form

By Ethan Gilsdorf
Globe Correspondent / January 4, 2006

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